Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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